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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 04, 1937
Page
7
A teen girl asks for guidance on becoming an actress and moving to Hollywood. The friend cautions that few achieve success, warns of long waits and disappointments, and urges solid employment unless the pupil is truly determined to pursue film work.
A note directs all inquiries to Miss Marilotte Mansfield in care of The Enterprise, with assurances that they will be answered promptly. The instruction implies a formal newsroom contact procedure tied to the paper.
The article guides women on choosing makeup shades to flatter skin tones and hair color. It suggests testing shades with scarf swatches, matching rouge and lipstick to skin, and using bold eye makeup to alter appearance. It also cautions against green and mauve powders in daytime and recommends light or dark outfits with white accents for color balance.
In 1429 an artisan at the court of Philip the Good of Burgundy crafted a brass clock with a single mechanism that still keeps good time.
A letter from Exchanger complains that merchants and staff respond rudely to Christmas gift exchanges. The writer recalls two stores where clerks were unfriendly while handling returns and requests improved cooperation between employer and employee in exchange policy.
The First Methodist Protestant church announces a January program focused on youth. Evening services center on Why Some Young People Become Cynical Toward Religion with sermons by Pastor J. Clay Medison. Young People’s Day January 31 will be presented by the church’s youth group.
Bristol city attorney Joe Brown won a tall story contest at a dinner for city officials. His entry told of a hunter facing a bear on a bitter cold day who forgets bullets, fires ice melted pellets, and the bear dies from water on the brain after bullets travel as ice.
The article discusses extensive research to devise a present day calendar, noting the effort required and the result as not wholly satisfactory.
London reports a new reward for capturing the elusive burglar known as Flannel Foot. Scotland Yard offers 50 dollars and two weeks holiday to the officer who brings him in, while the public enemy continues to evade police despite extensive memorandums, maps, and conferences.
White House confirms Andrew W. Mellon offered his 19 million dollar art collection to the government and President Roosevelt would urge Congress to accept it. He also proposed to finance a national gallery in Washington at his own cost, housing the collection and other treasures.
George Blumenthal of the Metropolitan Museum praises the Mellon collection as among the best in the world. He supports gifting it to the government, noting masterpieces including pieces from Petrograd’s Hermitage, and calls it a wonderful national asset.
Robert Fechner said that 162 of the 1,681 men who joined the Civilian Conservation Corps in North Carolina last October had never held any kind of job before. About 412 enrollees did not specify previous employment and roughly 1,000 had worked less than a year.
Nazi warships escalated the Spanish conflict drawing wary eyes to Madrid and Bilboa after shelling a Socialist merchant ship and taking another to an unknown port. The move heightens risk of broader intervention as Germany Italy and Portugal back the insurgents while Britain and other nations push non intervention talks.
The siege inside the fortress leaves 500 wounded among 1 200 civilians and attackers urge surrender after three charges fail to breach walls. Two months of fighting strip Europe with fear of a wider civil war as Germany threatens a final drive. German cruiser Koenigsberg and pocket battleship Admiral Spee shell a Spanish Socialist vessel and seize another, signaling a potential shift in the conflict.
In Richmond on January 4 Thom as Kennerly Sexton 37 chief of the enforcement division of the state liquor board was found with a bullet wound in his head in his office shortly after he called his wife and spoke unclearly. He died at Memorial hospital at 11:05 a.m. Chairman T McCall Frazier said the death was self inflicted due to financial worries and noted Sexton’s work was exemplary.
The silver fox is the principal contributor to Canadian fur production. In the latest fur trade year these animals provided 34 percent of the total furs taken.
Raleigh reports indicate the 1937 General Assembly may push a state retirement insurance and pension law covering all state workers including 23 000 teachers. The proposal calls for 5 percent employee contributions with equal state matching to fund age 65 pensions and unemployment protection, totaling about 1 250 000 dollars annually.
The article notes the Christ Christian Science church services on January 3 1937 focusing on God as the subject of the Lesson Sermon. The Golden Text from Psalm 118 27 highlights God as the light shown to us and Romans 8 38 39 emphasizes nothing shall separate believers from Gods love in Christ Jesus. It cites passages from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy urging readers to live Life as God and demonstrate Truth and Love for healing.
Sanford Cotton Mill began building an addition to its plant to enable a 15 percent rise in production. The project plans to expand capacity and support increased output at the facility.
It has been estimated that 1936 production of book paper will approximate 1,370,000 tons in the United States.
Representative Thomas E. Cooper denounces Governor Ehringhaus as the most inhumane NC governor and calls for reform of the penal system. He criticizes parole delays, claims prisoners serve excessive time, and praises Capus Waynick and Oscar Pitts for efforts toward modernization.
Governor Ehringhaus refused to comment when told of charges against the state penal system raised by Representative Thomas of New Hanover. He said the record speaks for itself and praised the paroles commissions, which federal authorities have commended.
Philadelphia report on a virus symposium forecasts immunity to pneumonia and streptococcus poisoning. Dr Stuart Mudd describes three methods to destroy bacteria while preserving antigens. Antigens provoke disease resistance, enabling potent vaccines without harmful substances.
The North Carolina State Employment Service local office reports 32 unemployed people placed last week in the city. Of these, 31 were private and one public, with 15 listed as permanent. The week’s total dropped due to the New Year holiday observance.
M P Lipe Jr 23 of Hickory was released on 1000 bond by Burke county officers on a leg shooting incident in Hildebran. Terrell Seall 22 suffered a leg wound not serious and was treated at a local hospital. Lipe and two companions reportedly injured Seall after a confrontation.
Five Tarpon Springs youths who disappeared yesterday on a speed boat cruise into the Gulf of Mexico returned home safely at 8 a m today ending an overnight hunt by fishermen and coastguardsmen. Their boat developed a bearing failure and they were soaked by rain and hunger while keeping awake by singing.
In 1661 Nuremberg Germany residents used Hentsch's hand tub to fight fires. A group of six men on opposing sides operated a hand pump to project water from a tub, which needed constant filling by a bucket chain system.
Durham January 4. Lemuel Robert Hunt known to Trinity College and Duke University students as Dean Hunt died from a heart attack in a workshop on the Woman’s College campus today. He was 78 and had served with the college for 47 years, mostly as superintendent of grounds. Funeral services will be held this afternoon.
Washington January 4 Representative Henry Ellenbog pa said his textile regulation bill is ready for production in Congress tomorrow. The measure sets fair practices and wage floors from 18 to 35 dollars weekly for unskilled workers, abolishes child labor, and creates a national textile commission with power to prohibit the right or green yard shift. Ellenbogen reported broad industry and labor backing for the regulation.
Fire destroyed the general merchant store in Bamberg South Carolina with losses estimated at 30 000. Fire units from Orangeburg and Denmark helped contain the blaze. Owners say losses are partly covered by insurance.
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